#Add a library to halion se 3 full version
#Add a library to halion se 3 upgrade
#Add a library to halion se 3 full
#Add a library to halion se 3 pro

#Add a library to halion se 3 full

Full versions of Sonic and HALion have always been able to work in any DAW of choice, and all the keys to unlock the included content are included without needing a Steinberg Host on the system. HALion 6 comes with everything that’s in the latest distro, as well as all previous versions of HALion (2, 3, 4, 5, etc.), plus all versions of HALion Sonic, and the latest HALion and Sonic plugins.

#Add a library to halion se 3 full version

If you buy something like the full version of Sonic 3, or HALion 6, of course you get pretty much the entire history of content of the HALion line for that product, as well as any leaner versions of it (not counting specialty packs with their own key and installers like Steinway Grand Piano).

Just load the project and it should sound as it did the last time you worked on it…even if it was way back in 2016, using older versions of pretty much ‘everything’. This is so whatever projects you have made with HALion, no matter how old they are, should always just load up and play for you…no need to go back and reinstall really old HALion plugins and stuff. Major upgrades often include quite a lot of ‘new’ content that uses the latest new technologies of the synth/sampler engine, but you always get the older content from previous versions included too. In general, anytime you move to new generations of HALion products, or ‘step up the ladder’ to a bigger version, any ‘old content’ in the product line will always still be there…even if you buy HALion 6 today…you get content going WAY BACK to version 4, which also includes subsets to earlier content (sometimes you have to look for alternate installers, or download the ‘really old stuff’ in formats other than vstsound, but it works, and you are usually entitled to it at no extra charge). So, Sonic SE Basic 2 is still unchanged…nothing new about the ‘content’…just a new SE3 ‘player’.

If there are no changes to the content pack, then it’s still going to have that old name.

#Add a library to halion se 3 upgrade

It might even give you entirely NEW content packs after a major upgrade in ADDITION to what is already there. Sometimes when you ‘update’ or ‘upgrade’ your central DAW, it can include changes or additions to old content packs, and thus alter their version number somewhat. Instead of Hybrid (Pretty much fat synth sounds), you get the Symphonic Orchestra content, and I think there might be some other smaller specialty packs for things like a custom Dorico click track as well. Dorico comes with all of the ones mentioned above but the Hybrid pack.

#Add a library to halion se 3 pro

In short, Cubase Pro might come with ‘more’ or ‘different’ content packs than Cubase Artist. Examples are things like, “HALion Sonic SE Basic”, “HALion SE Artist”, “HALion SE Pro”, and “HALion Sonic SE Hybrid”. Usually, any updates or additions to those ‘content packs’ are a part of the host packaging, and each ‘content pack’ has its own name and version. As a HALion 6 user, I can load and play the vast majority of the extra content packs that come with it in Sonic SE 3 as well, including my own user custom presets).Įach host usually comes with an assortment of ‘content packs’. SE 3 will have no problems running content from SE 1, or 2, as well as the majority of content that happens to ship with full versions of Sonic or HALion (I.E. Newer versions are generally backwards compatible with any content for all older versions. The central plugin and synth engine is typically the same across all Steinberg Hosts. The only way to get the Sonic SE player, was to use a Steinberg host.

Until very recently, HALion plugins with “SE” in the name shipped ONLY with various Steinberg Hosts (Cubase, Nuendo, Dorico, etc.), and they only work with such hosts. Over the years things “HALion” have worked pretty much like this: